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To: kaka who wrote (91110)	5/7/2001 8:40:39 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Kaka - not a well-researched review. The product which competes with the DELL PowerApp 120 is the DL360, not the 320. The 320 is designed primarily for web farms where the whole unit gets replaced in the event of a failure - it is a different failure recovery mechanism than the larger servers but one we will see more and more, especially as "blades" servers become more popular. The 360 is the "full-up" 1u server and supports dual 1GHz processors, hot-swappable drives and comes with an array controller standard - it is an option on the DELL box. Also the reviewer has the RAID levels backwards - RAID 5 is much slower than RAID 1 (which is the fastest fault tolerant RAID). The advantage of RAID 5 is that it gets more storage out of the disks, at the expense of speed. Also the pricing is way off on both units. On Compaq's web site, the DL320 is $2,483, and the DL360 is $3,215. The PowerApp 120 on DELL's web site is $2,214, so it is $250 cheaper than the DL320 and $1000 cheaper than the DL360. The DELL does not have all of the CPQ DL360 features - for example, lights-out management is not available - but aside from that the configurations are almost identical. But like I said, when a PC magazine reviews servers you get PC quality reviews. Still, looks like DELL is being super aggressive in low end server pricing.